It is not the least to the purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim.

When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, when I belonged to the village over yonder, that I wish I had never left, I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have come,—as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it?

There are no more uses of "whim" in the book.

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They flew to Paris on a whim.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.